Hi Everyone

[fastR]

I've been lurking on these forums for a while now, yes I know naughty naughty, so I thought I'd better start posting

Just a quick intro, I started making money on the net with my ebay business about 2 years ago. I'm not doing that at the moment as it takes too much of my time for the profit that I make. Plus the demographic that my products attract aren't exactly the smartest bunch so I get a lot of questions that I need to answer (more time).

I'm a computer science uni drop out lol, I lost all motivation after discovering that only 50% of my course actually covered computer science, the rest was complete garbage that they thought was necessary for you to become a good worker.

When it comes to programming and server side scripting, the saying jack of all trades, master of none comes to mind. I mainly use PHP though. I can use Photoshop ok but I lack creativity and generally borrow ideas from other sites and put them all together to make my own unique site. Notice how I said ideas and not content

My major downfall is focus. I have a HUGE amount of trouble focusing on one project at a time. I'll get 50% of the way through one and start another one and so on. You should see my projects folder LOL. It really tears me apart because I know if i stuck to any of them I would make good money. I'm getting better and starting to get closer to finishing some of my projects.

Anyway enough of my life story. I started article marketing which has got me a few sales. I've read lemonarian's latest guides which has given me a great idea and after a late night I have almost finished that.

Thats enough for now, gotta go to work.

[Ganceann]

Welcome to the forum... I too lack focus at times and I know I need to try and push myself to stay with what I am doing now as this is only the start of my journey.

Being a programmer does help you a lot - and being able to do your own article marketing is also a bonus... now if you combine both of them into my idea (:) - could be a winner

ps. idea is about creating x versions of article paragraphs that can be used in combination to form a unique standalone articles. I can't code it and the programmer I did mention it to has far too much on to be able to do it... it would be a step up from article spinners as it would be using xx number of unique paragraphs to create xx number of unique article versions... each of which may pick up a few backlinks without falling foul of duplicate content issues. (7 paragraphs in each article with 5 versions of each paragraph = 35 'unique' articles... or thereabouts).

[lemonarian]

Welcome to the boards... and yer, if you read my stuff, by now you should know that by doing ONLY article marketing - you're leaving a lot (a lot) of money on the table.

So get cracking with the magic 2.0!

Cool stuff, read the rules, stay active, don't spam, don't do drugs, don't be a faghole, etc, etc.

[vegas]

Welcome here ! Glad to see another lurker signup and post!

See ya around!

~Vegas

[fastR]

ps. idea is about creating x versions of article paragraphs that can be used in combination to form a unique standalone articles. I can't code it and the programmer I did mention it to has far too much on to be able to do it... it would be a step up from article spinners as it would be using xx number of unique paragraphs to create xx number of unique article versions... each of which may pick up a few backlinks without falling foul of duplicate content issues. (7 paragraphs in each article with 5 versions of each paragraph = 35 'unique' articles... or thereabouts).

I wouldn't think it would be that easy to write standalone paragraphs that could fit together to form somewhat of a coherent article? Might be possible.

Welcome to the boards... and yer, if you read my stuff, by now you should know that by doing ONLY article marketing - you're leaving a lot (a lot) of money on the table.

So get cracking with the magic 2.0!

Cool stuff, read the rules, stay active, don't spam, don't do drugs, don't be a faghole, etc, etc.

Will do.

[Ganceann]

I wouldn't think it would be that easy to write standalone paragraphs that could fit together to form somewhat of a coherent article? Might be possible.

Well, it would kinda be templated paragraphs.

Para 1: Intro
Para 2: Main benefit 1
para 3: main benefit 2
para 4: example
para 5: competitive advantage
para 6: promotional stuff
para 7: summary

It would be a structured article and although the same benefits could be used, the paragraph would be worded differently (like a rewrite).

It was something I had considered when looking at writing one version of an article for my own site and then writing alternative versions for article distribution purposes.

[fastR]

Sounds like it could work, but would still be a lot of work IMO as you would still have to reword some stuff. I haven't had much experience with article marketing though so my opinion isn't to be taken too seriously

[JIMZ]

Welcome

I too had an ebay business running, selling ebooks. It turned into such a pain with customers and feedback that I couldn't be bothered with it any more.

Focus is also my problem, I have 10 or so websites sitting there doing nothing but a few $ on Adsense. At the time I had big ambitions with them!

Good luck with focusing!

Jim

[fastR]

Welcome

I too had an ebay business running, selling ebooks. It turned into such a pain with customers and feedback that I couldn't be bothered with it any more.

Focus is also my problem, I have 10 or so websites sitting there doing nothing but a few $ on Adsense. At the time I had big ambitions with them!

Good luck with focusing!

Jim

Hah, yeah I hear ya. I've had big ambitions for all my sites I think I have around 10 active ones also. I'd get rid of them but they make me a $1-2 a day in adsense, alright for doing nothing.

With regard to ebay, I was selling gold body jewellery. Most of my customers were teens to early 20 females, they seemed to lack the ability to read the description. I never got a negative but I got sick of receiving comments like "great but not the same size as photo" (well of course it's not you dumb b***h what do you have the nose the size of king kong? *pics are enlarged to show detail*) I didn't actually say that .

[lemonarian]

Ganceann wtf your articles must be like 689658347539764 words...

[megarudy]

Welcome mate. I look forward to your online friendship.

To Your Success,

Megarudy

[mikey1090]

Another lurker Good to see you joined.